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Lyric Stage Does It…Again!
Hello, Dolly! Lyric Stage Boston May 16-June 22, 2025 I have been attending Lyric Stage for over thirty years and am still confounded—amazed!—at the blockbusters they produce on their intimate thrust stage. Lyric always ends the season with a major … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimee Doherty, Hello Dolly, Ilyse Robbins, Lyric Stage Boston, Maurice Emmanuel Parent
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Yo! People! Get Your Affairs in Order!
Memorial Day is upon us. The day in which we honor the dead. This year, I suggest that you honor death—your own—in a way that will benefit the living. Make a will. Create an estate plan. So when it’s your … Continue reading
Lush Love
The Light in the Piazza The Huntington May 9 – June 15, 2025 If you missed a decadent Valentine’s treat or the dreamy drizzle of April in Paris, and are in need of romantic fix, may I suggest a trip … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Guettel, italy, Joshua Grosso, musical, The Huntington, The Light in the Piazza, theatre, travel, writing
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Cybertruck 2: Lipstick on a Pig
When it comes to getting down on Elon Musk, I was ahead of the curve. Back in October, before Trump’s second election, before DOGE, below Elon let his four-year-old son prance around the oval office, I decried the Cybertrucks that … Continue reading
Cambridge Under Construction
I walked to the gym the other day, a pleasant walk of 1-1/2 miles or so along residential streets. I counted eleven houses under renovation. Not just homeowners getting a new furnace, landscaping, or applying coat of paint. Major renovations, … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Housing, Cambridge MA, residential construction, zoning, zoning reform
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Movin’ On Up with the American Dream
Yoni Appelbaum’s cover story, “Stuck in Place,” in the March 2025 issue of The Atlantic offers a unique thesis as to the fundamental rumblings of our national discontent. That we used to be a society on the move. And now … Continue reading
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Tagged American Dream, Jane Jacobs, moving, The Atlantic, Yoni Appelbaum
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All Hail the Women Who Wear Their Crowns!
Moonbox Productions Crowns By Regina Taylor Directed by Regine Vital April 11, 2025 – May 4, 2025 CROWNS is great theater, great energy, great community. CROWNS is simply great. We entered into the black box hush of Arrow St. Arts … Continue reading
Are You Dead, or Are You About to Wake Up?
The Huntington Don’t Eat the Mangos By Ricardo Pérez González Directed by David Mendizàbal March 26, 2025 – April 27, 2025 It’s a challenge to convey the full power of Don’t Eat the Mangos without spoilers, but just like the … Continue reading
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Tagged Don't Eat the Mangos, Evelyn Howe, Ricardo Pérez González, The Huntington
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Twenty Years of Yoga
Twenty years ago this month I took my first yoga class. A friend took me to a men’s naked yoga class in a third-floor walk-up above Teddy Shoes in Central Square. I attended weekly for a year or so, until … Continue reading
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Tagged Bikram yoga, Down Under On Demand, Down Under Yoga, yoga
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The MBTA is Getting Better
I know it’s not fashionable to compliment or praise, but fashion’s never been my forte, so I’m going to go out on limb. The MBTA is getting better. The trains and buses are running more regularly, the slowdowns have slowed … Continue reading
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